Winter Film Series: Superior Lights on the Shipwreck Coast

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March 10th – March 11th

Saturday & Sunday 2pm

The voyageurs in birch bark canoes, the schooners, steamers and freighters; the Soo Locks, Lake Superior’s original life-saving service stations—it’s all in this documentary. Superior Lights on the Shipwreck Coast includes the first lighthouse on Lake Superior, Whitefish Point. Visit with Bertha (Endress) Rollo as she remembers living as a child in the Whitefish Point Lighthouse with her family and grandfather Keeper Robert Carlson. Other Lights featured in this video are: Point Iroquois, Crisp’s Point, Au Sable Point and the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Grand Island North and the East Channel Light, the Munising Range Lights and Grand Marais Harbor Lights. Also include are the shipwrecks of the Myron and the most famous Great Lakes tragedy, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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03/10/201803/11/2018America/DetroitWinter Film Series: Superior Lights on the Shipwreck CoastThe voyageurs in birch bark canoes, the schooners, steamers and freighters; the Soo Locks, Lake Superior’s original life-saving service stations—it’s all in this documentary. Superior Lights on the Shipwreck Coast includes the first lighthouse on Lake Superior, Whitefish Point. Visit with Bertha (Endress) Rollo as she remembers living as a child in the Whitefish Point Lighthouse with her family and grandfather Keeper Robert Carlson. Other Lights featured in this video are: Point Iroquois, Crisp’s Point, Au Sable Point and the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Grand Island North and the East Channel Light, the Munising Range Lights and Grand Marais Harbor Lights. Also include are the shipwrecks of the Myron and the most famous Great Lakes tragedy, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.100 The Strand Drive, Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan 48207aBiAKdWFvzLJBiabzmaP28799MM/DD/YYYY